Adam McGurk will overcome his latest injury and can look forward to some good times at Cambridge United, according to Shaun Derry.

The striker worked hard to come back from a knee problem he picked up in pre-season against Aston Villa and has featured in all of United’s last 10 Sky Bet League Two fixtures.

Bad luck struck once more at the weekend as the former Portsmouth man was forced off after just 33 minutes with a dead leg against his old club at the Cambs Glass Stadium.

But U’s manager Derry believes McGurk is due a change of fortune.

“He got a pretty heavy knock over in the corner and it was disappointing, of course,” said Derry.

“We all wanted Adam to play against his old side and he was really looking forward to it throughout the week. It was disappointing he was unable to finish the game.

“It’s unbelievable, but football changes very, very quickly and he’ll get out of this moment.

“There will be some good times around the corner for Adam McGurk.”

McGurk started alongside Uche Ikpeazu in the 1-0 defeat to Pompey and had shown some nice touches before having to be replaced by Ben Williamson, who went close to opening his account for the season in the second half.

Derry had wanted him to operate in the space between the visitors’ back four and holding midfielders, but he felt the side reacted well to the enforced change.

“That was the game plan. We wanted to find that little role for Adam to exploit in behind their two holding midfielders,” said Derry.

“You work on it all week and it goes out of the window in the first few minutes, so that was disappointing but that’s the game.

“We had to adapt to that and I felt Ben (Williamson) came on and put in a great shift. Hopefully his fortunes will change as well.”